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Ionic Framework By Example

By : Sani Yusuf
Book Image

Ionic Framework By Example

By: Sani Yusuf

Overview of this book

Change doesn’t have to be challenging. Sometimes it can be simple – sometimes it just makes sense. With Ionic, mobile development has never been so simple, so elegant and obvious. By helping developers to harness AngularJS and HTML5 for mobile development, it’s the perfect framework for anyone obsessed with performance, and anyone that understands just how important a great user experience really is. This book shows you how to get started with Ionic framework immediately. But it doesn’t just give you instructions and then expect you to follow them. Instead it demonstrates what Ionic is capable of through three practical projects you can follow and build yourself. From a basic to-do list app, a London tourist app, to a complete social media app, all three projects have been designed to help you learn Ionic at its very best. From setting up your project to developing on both the server side and front end, and best practices for testing and debugging your projects, you’ll quickly become a better mobile developer, delivering high performance mobile apps that look awesome. Ionic Framework by Example is for people who don’t want to learn now, build later – it’s for people who want to learn and build at the same time – so they can meet today’s mobile development challenges head on and deliver better products than anyone else.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

The Ionic workflow


When you create a new Ionic project, there are a couple of folders and files that come as stock as part of the generated project. Your directory should look similar to what is seen in the following screenshot:

The structure you see is pretty much the same as in every Cordova project, with the exception of a few files and folders. For example, there is a scss folder. This contains a file that lets us customize the look and feel of our application and will be covered in detail in later chapters. There are also the platforms and plugins folder. The platforms folder, in most cases is auto-generated, but we will not be covering them in this book so you can ignore them for the time being.

You will also notice that in your www/lib folder, there is a folder called ionic that contains all the required files to run Ionic. There are css, fonts, js, and scss folder.

  • css: This folder contains all the default CSS that come with an Ionic app.

  • fonts: Ionic comes with its own font and Icon...